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The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Wale Edun, has emphasised the need for Nigeria to take advantage of cheap concessionary loans, and climate financing to raise revenue to fund the 2024 Budget. Edun stated this on Tuesday in his speech during a one-day retreat on the 2024 Appropriation Bill organised by the Senate Committee on Appropriation, …

Some Nigerians expressed reservation at the position of TUC on recent warming strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). MOSES JOHN  writes on views expressed by some stakeholders.  The essence of trade unions’ activities is for the welfare as well as  defense of her members against policies of government considered inimical to the survival of the members. The recent removal …

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says it has simultaneously decimated several criminal elements in the last few days through airstrikes in various theatres of operation. This was contained in a statement by the Director of Public Relations and Information, NAF, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, on Sunday in Abuja. In the Niger Delta Region, Gabkwet said that airstrikes were targeted at …

Nigeria’s foreign exchange reserves have fallen by $1.6bn to $32.97bn since the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) announced the unification of the exchange rate to unify the country’s foreign exchange rates. As of June 15, 2023, when the naira was allowed to float, the country’s gross FX reserves stood at $34.62bn. However, the foreign exchange reserves fell to $32.97bn as …

A dismissed soldier, LGpl John Gabriel with service number, N/A13/69/6522, attached to 241 Recce Battalion, Nguru, has been sentenced to death by hanging. The sentence followed his convicted by a Yobe State High Court sitting in Potismum for the offence of murder. The presiding Judge, Justice Usman Zanna Mohammed who gave the verdict also convicted LCpl Adamu Gideon after he …

Police operatives in Delta have arrested a suspected cultist in the state. The spokesman for the state police command, Bright Edafe, who disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday in Warri, said the operatives also arrested a member of a kidnapping syndicate. He said the arrest of the suspects followed the investigation into the murder of one Regina Ogana, …

President Bola Tinubu has returned to Abuja from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where he stopped over after attending the G20 summit in New Delhi, India. President Tinubu arrived at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport on Tuesday night. He was received by a high-level delegation of government officials, led by Vice President Kashim Shettima. Other top …

In a bid to further enhance the regulatory functions of the council, the Environmental Health Council of Nigeria, (EHCON), has set a new practice standard for the improvement of environmental health practices. The Registrar/CEO, of EHCON, Dr. Yakubu Mohammed Baba, disclose this recently while declaring open a technical review on draft guidelines for environmental health practice, in Abuja.  He said …

The Cross River State Governor, Bassey Otu, has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on four communities in the Yala local government area of the state over violence. The affected communities are – Ugaga, Igbekurekor, Benekaba, and Ijama. In a statement issued on Tuesday by his Chief Press Secretary, Emmanuel Ogbeche, the governor said the curfew was to forestall further loss of …

The Benue State Police Command has paraded a 24-year-old man, Abara Elias for allegedly defiling an eight-year-old boy. Elias is one of 25 suspects paraded on Tuesday by the command in Makurdi, the state capital. The suspects were paraded for various offences which range from robbery and kidnapping to cultism and rape among others. The state Commissioner of Police, George …